May, 2011 - Aging Abundantly

Laughter ~ Balm for the Soul

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ~ Michael Pritchard ~~~ What would life be like without laughter? One of the many gifts of aging is acquiring the ability to take ourselves a bit less seriously. While some people are just born with the ability…

AMAZING GRAYS ~ A Woman’s Guide to Making the Next 50 the Best 50 (Regardless of Your Hair Color!) by Maggie Rose Crane

ARE YOU CONSIDERING GOING GRAY? Maggie Crane tackles the going gray issue by going beneath the surface and getting to the “root” of the issue. In her book AMAZING GRAYS, she explores the sometimes complicated path women often travel as we grapple with the aging process. Gray is a woman who…

Accepting the Role of Caregiver to Aging Parents

The role of caregiver to aging parents can be a rugged journey along a treacherous path of frustration and indecision. As children of aging parents, we are often right in the middle of the busiest part of our own lives. Growing children, stressful careers, financial concerns, an empty nest loom…

Marriage at Midlife: Letting Go ~ “An Unfinished Symphony”

Marriage at Midlife: Letting Go ~ Part 3 “The rhythm of life is when you experience your own body, mind and soul.” ~ The Yogi Tea Bag Mystic The time arrived. The striving had ceased. My time to care for others had ended. Midlife is a time of letting go,…

Help! I Keep Spilling My Coffee!

Am I the only one who has this problem? Spilling my coffee on a regular basis simply adds insult to injury when it comes to my tenuous sense of control over life. I fear I’m not aging gracefully, let alone abundantly! I used to consider myself a person of style…

Telling Our Story

When I made the decision to take my desire to write more seriously, I signed up for a class at Writer’s Online Workshop sponsored by Writer’s Digest, a website that seems to have morphed into . An early online class, it took place in a cyber class and the students benefited…